About the Authors
- Wen-Yang Tsai
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Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
- Szu-Chia Hsieh
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Affiliations Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, Pacific Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Research, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
- Chih-Yun Lai
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Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
- Hong-En Lin
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Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Vivek R. Nerurkar
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Affiliations Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, Pacific Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Research, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
- Wei-Kung Wang
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* E-mail: wangwk@hawaii.edu
Affiliations Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, Pacific Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Research, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: WYT WKW. Performed the experiments: WYT SCH CYL HEL. Analyzed the data: WYT WKW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WYT SCH CYL HEL VRN. Wrote the paper: WYT WKW.